On June 12, 1919, Brigadier General Douglas MacArthur slipped quietly into the command of the garrison in the Hudson Highlands, more commonly known as the United States Military Academy at West Point. He had chosen to forego the usual extravagant...

Photograph of John Trumbull's painting 'The Resignation of General Washington's Commission, 23 December 1783' completed 1824-1828.This oil on canvas piece measures 20 x 30 x 1 in. and is part of the Trumbull Collection housed in the Yale Art...

The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s did much to advance minority participation in every aspect of American culture. Those advancements included involving more minorities in government, in higher education, and the officer and non-commissioned...

One such period of freezing and thawing involved the academic reforms that occurred between the inception of the electives program during the era of Superintendent, Lieutenant General Garrison H. Davidson, in the 1950s, the introduction of...